Comedy Legend Aries Spears reminisces about the Old Miami

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Comedy Veteran Aries Spears joins the show to talk about his career and his upcoming shows this weekend at the Fort Lauderdale Improv! Marcos and Aries bring up his time filming "The Pest" in Miami, his terrifying run in with Mike Tyson, his true thoughts on Dwyane Wade's statue and he settles the GOAT Debate once and for all.

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00:00um aries spears we have four lauderdale improv this weekend a lot of opportunities to catch

00:06him you got two shows on the 28th three shows on the 29th which is rare you got to be a legend to

00:12be able to pull off three shows on a saturday night and two shows on a sunday so make sure

00:17you come check us out mr spears thank you for joining us sir yo what's good what's good now i

00:23want to start things off with a movie that is a cult classic and something that i remember

00:29watching it's probably one of the earliest works that i uh remember seeing you in and that was

00:34actually shot in the past baby that one listen john licuizamo you i don't know i was maybe about

00:44seven years old watching that movie i probably should have been watching that movie at seven

00:47years old but it seemed like the perfect thing for me at the time and it's something that i hold

00:51dearly as well as your time on mad tv but as far as the past uh what do you remember about making

00:56that movie in miami how much has miami changed since then i know you're frequently here are you

01:01have any memories from that time uh you know uh that was a good time you know that was me john

01:08licuizamo and uh freddie rodriguez and uh i did that was actually one of my first times in miami i

01:14think that had only been my second time in miami uh but now i frequent there at least once a year

01:19you know miami's one of the hot spots yeah look it's i i see you if you're not at the club in

01:24dorale you're at the club in fort lauderdale for sure i know you've been doing comedy for quite some

01:29time uh if if my research was right you've been doing this what since 1992 yeah about 36 years brother

01:3736 years that's you know to to be able to do anything for that long obviously takes a lot of

01:45longevity do you think other than the fact that i feel obviously audiences have uh gotten more

01:53sensitive how has comedy changed since you started well you know you just said it i mean because of

01:59the political climate and uh you know everybody's more conscious of being politically correct and woke

02:05and you know all of that but you know that's never been me my comedic cocaine is uncut

02:11if you go to a comedy show and it's one of those in which you know you're scared to sit up front

02:17because you don't want the comedian to say anything about you that is the airy spirit show listen don't

02:21come up here with no garbage ass outfit in the front row or trying to be you know one of those people

02:26in the audience and thinks that they're louder than the comedian airy spirits is definitely one who's

02:30going to check you but i know you go beyond comedy as well i know you spent some time doing the

02:34best damn sports show period uh wow that's ancient they ain't even around no more i know i know man

02:40but again it was one of the staples of my watching at that time i know you were on there with john

02:44sally but uh i want to ask you about michael ervin because as you know big miami hurricanes guy

02:50always sweating always sweating always on the side

02:53what was it like working with michael ervin

02:56michael is one of the most genuine coolest cats i've ever met in my life uh he's so lovable and

03:04likable and a lot of times most of the fun we had was the pre-production meeting actually before the

03:09taping that's when everybody would just let loose him john crock charlie rose and it was just uh tom

03:15and it was a fantastic time mike's my guy now look i i want to talk about a story that you probably

03:22told a million times but can you tell me about the mike tyson incident oh yeah you know there was

03:28this big build-up uh prior to my last couple weeks on the show when they finally had mike tyson and i

03:35basically begged them to have let me come on and close that show out because i'm such a huge mike

03:39tyson fan so long story short mike came to the show uh mike ervin kept egging me on to do an

03:46impression which of course i didn't want to do because this was mike tyson and his i'll eat your kids

03:50but i went ahead and did it and you know mike really didn't laugh and he kind of like gave me

03:57a look so you know i always tell people i peed alone aries i always wondered this question because

04:05comedians when you go in front of a stage you don't get a whole bunch of takes you know that

04:12that's a one-time thing you ain't got to redo it you don't get a chance when you get into acting and

04:17they have several takes of the same thing do you find that an easier transition than doing stand-up

04:23which is live uh yeah i mean you know it still presents its own challenges but like you just said

04:31you get multiple takes unless you're working off of people whereas with stand-up it's a solo sport

04:36right and uh whatever happens in the moment happens in the moment now last year you went viral

04:42for your take on the d wade statue a year has gone by have you had a chance to see it in person

04:49i wouldn't want to see it in person okay it's not scary enough on tv it's not one good thing you can

04:57say about it aries when they say it has angles that pretty much confirms your theory right i don't know

05:06i mean look man that face is crazy look the statue has a good personality aries i promise has a good

05:13personality well the fact that he sit there and tried to act like he wasn't bothered by it was the

05:18greatest acting job i've ever seen yeah no i've seen it and it's it's not great it's not great i

05:24understand it's trying to capture a moment belongs to it short it's not great um yeah now i know where

05:30you stand in regards to the goat debate when it comes to the nba but if i had to give you a bench

05:37start cut situation between michael jordan kobe bryant and magic johnson who would you bench start and cut

05:48of those three oh that's easy uh mike starting uh lebron is being uh benched uh no actually um

05:59magic's being benched lebron's being cut cut so you're not you know you don't buy into the the

06:06era of greatness that that lebron james apparently has bestowed upon us with his longevity you're not

06:13buying it you think it's all inflated no no no no no no he's one of the greatest players

06:20to ever play the game um but as far as longevity i mean he's been in the league

06:25since his mother's first trimester what you think is going to break the records yeah but isn't that

06:32something within itself and listen i would i would i would have to see the uh i want to see the point

06:37guard two guard combination between michael and magic yeah you know that's that's something that uh

06:44the dream team that was probably the only opportunity we had to see it uh do you have any

06:50picks this year in regards to nba that you think clear cut this team is better than every other team

06:57they're taking it all this year and you know what i don't really have the dog in the fight but uh

07:03if okc stays strong and connected i don't see why they wouldn't repeat they're so young too man that's

07:09the crazy thing about them like they ain't got a whole bunch of veterans they young

07:14and they got picks too they definitely got a lot of picks yeah uh aries spears again joining us he

07:23will be at the fort lauderdale improv two shows friday three shows on saturday and two shows on

07:30sunday again make sure you join us make sure you go and see a true artist uh perfecting his craft on

07:38stage and what i what i've noticed about you do you have those times yes i do friday we have those

07:43two shows that i just mentioned that'll be at 7 30 and 10 o'clock on saturday you got three

07:49opportunities although one of them is sold out first show sold out already saturdays are hot days

07:53so make sure you get to those tickets the 7 p.m show sold out on saturday the 29th but 9 30 p.m and

07:5911 59 p.m trust me i've been working at the improv since it opened not a lot of comedians can pull

08:04off adding a third show on saturday usually they got to take away your show he added another one on

08:09sunday for you as well 6 p.m and 8 30 p.m uh everyone has their pre-game rituals and if you're

08:17a fan of aries spears he's not one of those guys who is hiding in the back or shows up 30 seconds

08:22before he's supposed to go on stage aries likes to walk in and tell me if i'm lying walk in and

08:28not that's uh that's accurate observe the area sit in the back sit on the side look at the audience

08:34kind of analyze it's like he's watching game film before he goes on stage is that the purpose

08:39or are you kind of just trying to relax and mellow your mood kind of not that that uh pretty much

08:45nails it um you know it's almost like you know you get ready to do a bank heist you know you got to go

08:51in before and and look at the uh look at the blueprints and and the lay of the land you got to look

08:57into schematics you know how you gonna how you gonna rob the joint it is it is a small things

09:04that separates the good from the great and uh i want to thank you taking the time aries spears

09:09anything on the way out that you want to plug uh no just come down to the show like you said you gave

09:15out the times uh we got the two added shows the the midnight show on saturday and then the second

09:21show on sunday and uh you know come on out man it's gonna be a blast it'll be an absolute blast be

09:26sure you get those tickets again i want to thank you for joining us catch aries spears live at the

09:32four lauderdale improv you got two shows on the 28th three shows on the 29th and two shows on the

09:3830th head to improv ftl.com slash calendar to get your tickets today thank you mr spears you got it

09:47brother that was aries spears joining

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